Re: CMS comparison [ was: Web software for a family web site? ]

2007-02-09 Thread Ben Scott
On 2/8/07, Seth Cohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, looks like I'll be doing not one, but 2 Intro to Drupal presentations. In April in Peterborough, and in May in Concord. And when are you going to do Nashua, hmmm? They've got the best on-site food and beer of any GNHLUG meeting. (Also the

Re: CMS comparison [ was: Web software for a family web site? ]

2007-02-09 Thread Seth Cohn
If the first 2 go really well, and there is a demand, Nashua can be next. On 2/9/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And when are you going to do Nashua, hmmm? They've got the best on-site food and beer of any GNHLUG meeting. (Also the only on-site food and beer, but it's still pretty

Spam and bounces - how do you handle it?

2007-02-09 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
I'm looking for some advice from any fellow mail administrators on the list. The problem I'm looking to resolve is not even one that I am sure is a problem persay, but it's the handling of bounce messages in response to spam. We run a lot of lists that have a lot of addresses, sometimes

Open Source Contact Manager (something like ACT?)

2007-02-09 Thread hewitt_tech
Has anyone any experience with an open source contact manager application something like ACT! ? I searched Sourceforge and got a few hits but I haven't any idea as to how good any of these projects migh be. One that sound's like it might fit the bill is CalypsoRCP. The application would

Monadlug notes: uniq and Joomla!, 8-Feb-2007

2007-02-09 Thread Ted Roche
Charlie Farinella called the meeting to order promptly at 7 PM and cracked his whip to stick to his streamlined agenda. Brief announcements (find GNHLUG events on www.gnhlug.org) were followed by Ray Côté's presentation of uniq. Ray explained the function and then introduced an increasingly

Re: Open Source Contact Manager (something like ACT?)

2007-02-09 Thread John Hanks
Alex In a past life we were implementing SugarCRM for contact and pipeline management. It uses MySQL and PHP. John On 2/9/07, hewitt_tech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone any experience with an open source contact manager application something like ACT! ? I searched Sourceforge and

Re: Spam and bounces - how do you handle it?

2007-02-09 Thread Ben Scott
On 2/9/07, Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... it's the handling of bounce messages in response to spam. The problem is called backscatter. There's no universal solution that I am aware of. Web and Usenet searches for backscatter spam (and similar) should prove educational.

Re: Spam and bounces - how do you handle it?

2007-02-09 Thread aluminumsulfate
From: Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 09:36:21 -0500 I'm looking for some advice from any fellow mail administrators on the list. Ultimately, I get a number of complaints by way of SpamCop - a couple every month or two anyway - that say I'm spamming. Even

Re: Monadlug notes: uniq and Joomla!, 8-Feb-2007

2007-02-09 Thread Ted Roche
On Feb 9, 2007, at 10:56 AM, Ted Roche wrote: Guy then showed us the Joomla! install he had done that day, Just a clarification: it was the 1.5 version that Guy was demo'ing last night. On my blog, I incorrectly stated it was version 1.0. Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC

Re: Spam and bounces - how do you handle it?

2007-02-09 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Friday 09 February 2007 11:43 am, Ben Scott wrote: Backscatter may be causing you to send very large amounts of bogus mail send to people who have nothing to do with you. In many cases, backscatter is a worse problem than spam. The fact that you do not mean to be causing problems does

Re: Open Source Contact Manager (something like ACT?)

2007-02-09 Thread klussier
There is also a fork of SugarCRM called vTiger http://www.vtiger.org. It has everything that SugarCRM has and a little more. And it is completely free, unlike Sugar. FYI, Kenny -- Original message -- From: John Hanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alex In a past

Re: Monadlug notes: uniq and Joomla!, 8-Feb-2007

2007-02-09 Thread Paul Lussier
Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guy then showed us the Joomla! install he had done that day, highlighting the basic features of the CMS and the ease of use of the administrative interface. It appeared to be a very open and accessible system. Templates and CSS files could be edited from

Re: Monadlug notes: uniq and Joomla!, 8-Feb-2007

2007-02-09 Thread Paul Lussier
Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ray explained the function and then introduced an increasingly complex set of examples, one building on another to show how uniq could remove duplicate lines from a sorted file, display various counts of duplicates and so forth. It might be really neat to

Re: Spam and bounces - how do you handle it?

2007-02-09 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Feb 9, 2007, at 12:08, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: But as I said, a lot of our backscatter is bounce traffic originating from legitimate addresses. The bounce error is important as it will tell a real person why their message cannot be posted or their request cannot be handled for one

Re: When kiddies attack!

2007-02-09 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Feb 8, 2007, at 13:44, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: He finds kids (sometimes referred to him by the Brazilian FBI) who were using their spare time to break into machines and Marcelo teaches them the ethics and responsibility of being a computer user and systems administrator. That's an

Re: When kiddies attack!

2007-02-09 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Feb 8, 2007, at 15:16, Thomas Charron wrote: Will they track down the troublemakers by IP, and go knocking on doors? Man that'd be nice. :-D I've thought more than once it would be nice to have a cooperative guild for just that sort of thing. Today I'm likely to get attacked by a

Re: Spam and bounces - how do you handle it?

2007-02-09 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Friday 09 February 2007 04:38 pm, Bill McGonigle wrote: What if you only sent bounces to addresses where the incoming mail originated from a server with an SPF pass for the From: address? I'm not suggesting a particular software solution, just an idea for criticism. That is a rather

Re: When kiddies attack!

2007-02-09 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 16:47 -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote: On Feb 8, 2007, at 13:44, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: He finds kids (sometimes referred to him by the Brazilian FBI) who were using their spare time to break into machines and Marcelo teaches them the ethics and responsibility of

Re: When kiddies attack!

2007-02-09 Thread bmcculley
Bill mentions vigilantism. One of the dangers of vigilante retaliation is that many times the apparent source of attacks is simply some poor sod who left his M$ OEM installation unpatched cuz he knows not what he needs to do. All it takes is one click on the Super Bowl stadium website and

Re: When kiddies attack!

2007-02-09 Thread aluminumsulfate
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 19:17:05 -0500 (EST) One advantage of the local guild might be the opportunity for someone knowledgeable to knock on the door and educate the poor zombies. And of course, to find out whether it's someone who is really malicious, with

Re: When kiddies attack!

2007-02-09 Thread aluminumsulfate
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 15:16:37 -0500 From: Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whenever I go to Sao Paulo, I meet with the students, and recently I was honored to be at the first graduation class (a two-year commitment) of the first Black-belt Hackerteen students. I'd be interested to see